Description
All cultures of all times have featured symbolic narratives of an underworld deity that rules the psyche and man’s necessity of transformation. Death as a significant feature of Pluto’s archetypal trajectory is both literal and symbolic, yet rarely appears as one’s own demise, but as that of an important other, always symbolising an ending that is irrevocable. Endings are all vitally important because they create space for the individuation process. Myths like Demeter-Kore-Hades, Ereškigal and Innana, and Asclepius will provide us with starting points for our journey through the psychic landscape of man’s transformation as an inherent element of all of man’s individuating.
Matjaž L. Regovec, PhD, PhD is a doctor of psychological and philosophical sciences, an independent IPAL Method psychoanalyst. He founded the IPAL Institute in 1993. in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He lectures and holds workshops around the world. He has written over 20 books in the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy and the IPAL Method.
The IPAL Method uses a set of different techniques – active imagination, symbolic cosmology, psychoanalytic techniques, and dream analysis – with the goal to improve the relationship of an individual as a functional whole with their own being.
